3D art revolutionized things. Artists no longer had to think about lighting, perspective, squash and stretch, etc. They just had to think in terms of textures,

3D art revolutionized things. Artists no longer had to think about lighting, perspective, squash and stretch, etc. They just had to think in terms of textures, bones, model building, and so forth. With AI art, it will be more similar to a director-actor relationship. AI may generate all the assets and the models, but someone has to make sure they fit into a bigger scene. It could do a perfect scene, but an artist has to decide whether to make the tone more somber, what (AI generated) music fit with this scene and so on. We might also see the average artist doing animations and scenes instead of just one image. Programming will be more or less the same. AI could make current coding obsolete the same way Java made machine code obsolete. But we still have more jobs and longer hours, what gives? I think it'll just be Gustafson's Law in that we use the increased capacity to solve bigger problems until we hit a wall.